Pride and Shame in June 2026
"Here’s the experience of too many girls today: The Genderbread Man. Sexuality and gender flags. Classroom graphics that assign everyone a place on a spectrum of masculine and feminine stereotypes. Authority figures and institutions, including formerly lesbian- and gay-rights organizations, that encourage young people to stunt their physical, sexual, and intellectual development with opposite-sex hormones. A “feminism” that pretends to believe men can become women.
Early Pride marches stood, not for the homophobia and misogyny of “gender identity,” but for the rights of lesbians and gay men to live openly without shame. This June, I want to be part of redeeming that idea. I want to rail a little less about Pride’s corporatism and raunch, and think more about what young women need to see and hear from us in order to understand that they’re perfect exactly as they are."